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p.m., weekdays at 3:30 p.m. eastern. find me at facebook.com/alivelshi. tweet me. my handle is@alivelshi. have a great weekend. hello, every. i'm fredericka whitfield. welcome to the "cnn newsroom." a look at our top stories right now. a town in massachusetts is in the middle of a major cleanup after a winter storm slammed into the northeast. two houses are being demolished after they tipped into the atlantic ocean. several other homes have been condemned. high tide and strong winds are washing the debris from the houses right back onto shore, causing further damage to other homes. meanwhile, colorado, parts of the rockies and plains will get more snow today. at least 400 flights to the area have already been canceled. and now to the u.s. economy and new signs of the recovery may be gaining momentum.

hiring picked up substantially in february, bringing unemployment down to 7.7%. that's the lowest it's been since december of 2008. the economy added 236,000 jobs last month. almost double the amount it gained in january and much more than experts had actually predicted. and stocks are on a roll. the dow closed at record highs for four consecutive days, ending the week up more than 2%. president barack obama is using the latest jobs numbers in his fight to stop forced spending cuts which went into effect just eight days ago. in his weekly address, the president pointed out 236,000 new jobs were added in february, and the country needs to maintain its momentum by replacing the cuts. they'll slow the growth of the economy according to analysts. >> as democrats and republicans, we may disagree on the best way to achieve our goals, but i'm confident we can agree on what those goals should be.

a strong and vibrant middle class, an economy that allows businesses to grow and thrive, an education system that gives more americans the skills they need to compete for the jobs of the future. an immigration system that actually works for families and businesses. stronger communities and safer streets for our children. >> but republicans continue to resist what the president calls, quote, balanced deficit reduction which means raising taxes while cutting spending. they say new taxes will crush american workers. >> president obama speaks of his deep concern for struggling americans. yet his plans are focused on growing government, not the economy. he has no effective plan to create better jobs, more hiring, or rising wages. that's what's missing. >> senator sessions is the ranking member of the senate budget committee. he says senate democrats will present their plan for a budget on wednesday, the first time in four years. meanwhile, folks are starting to really feel the

impact of those forced spending cuts, and especially hard hit are the nearly 2 million families depending on unemployment insurance. as emily schmidt tells us, they are about to really feel the pain of the cuts. >> next stop, somerset. >> reporter: tracy mulvehill's commute through philadelphia is the smooth part of navigating what's become a bumpy road. >> yes, very interesting journey. >> reporter: she's on her way to volunteer with the philadelphia unemployment project, helping people without jobs look for the opportunity. she knows can be hard to find. >> this is the first time i'm on unemployment. it's scary, confusing. yeah. hold on one moment. you know, i never thought i'd be in this position. >> reporter: mulvehill says she worked for nearly three decades before a folding economy cost her her office management job and part-time cleaning job. she's looked for work since last

march with only $370 of federal unemployment insurance to barely cover a box of bills. >> my mortgage is $700. my car note is $372. >> reporter: washington's forced spending cuts that went into effect last week means her checks will shrink, too. it can cost americans about 10% of their benefits. >> that's now $200 less income in this house which i don't know how i'm really going to do it. >> reporter: economists disagree on how much the cuts will hurt. >> anything that slows down the economic recovery, that slows down the rate of overall employment rate is going to hurt the chances that the long-term unemployed are going to find work. >> these extended unemployment benefits are a subsidy. we need to cut all subsidies in the federal government, frankly, if we're going to get this deficit down. >> reporter: for now, mulvehill splits her time between

volunteering and keeping things running at home, hoping that next job isn't far away. >> you know, this was the american dream, i thought. and, i mean, and right now i'll do anything i can to keep all that. >> well, this afternoon tracy mulvehill says she has a new job lead. a church told her about an opening to work on its newslett newsletter. it would mean a career change, but she's getting her resume ready, hoping this could be the one to get her back to work. fred? >> meantime, it's been a week, eight days since those spending consults went into effect. is there any hope that the president and members of congress will agree on something to stop the cuts from continuing as it is impacting some americans like the young lady you just profiled? >> it's definitely the key question here. we saw more communication across the aisle. president obama had dinner with republicans one night last week. he had lunch with some republicans the next. he has more meetings planned this week with democratic and republican lawmakers. but will that breaking bread

lead to breaking the impasse? it's probably a question that's not going to be answered before those unemployment checks start to shrink. fredericka? >> all right, thanks so much, emily. appreciate that. meantime, here's another way those spending cuts are really hurting people. no more white house tours, at least for now. it's official as of today. and one mom says her son's birthday wish was to tour the white house, and they're both pretty disappointed now. >> i was pretty upset about it. just because of the fact that i know how difficult sometimes it is to get a tour of the white house and to have it lined up and just to kind of coincide with his birthday. for him to just turn 8, he had his own bucket list, and on that bucket list was d.c. and, you know, the white house. so it was a little bit, you know, upsetting. >> and after the white house announced the suspension of tours, republicans came up with their own idea to save money, have the president cancel all his golf trips. overseas in vatican city,

we're seeing signs that the roman catholic cardinals are preparing to select a new pope. the papal ring and seal belonging to benedict xvi were destroyed just a short time ago. the next pope will get a new fisherman's ring and seal with his own name on it after he is elected. a chimney was also installed today on the roof of the sistine chapel where the 115 cardinals will gather tuesday for the start of the conclave. people from all over the world will be waiting for white smoke to appear from that chimney. it will signify a new pope has been chosen. taliban militants in afghanistan say they're sending a message to defense secretary chuck hail. . he's claiming responsibility for a bombing near a building in kabul where hagel was getting briefed. the suicide bombing in front of the defense ministry killed nine people. u.s. military officials say hagel was not in danger, and his briefing did continue on as planned. jodi arias is facing some very tough questioning in her

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the judge in the colorado theater shooting case has

cleared the way for suspect james holmes to enter a plea. defense lawyers had filed a motion with the judge. they wanted him to declare the state's law on the insanity plea unconstitutional. the judge refused the motion, but he did grant a request to explain the consequences of an insanity plea. holmes is accused of killing a dozen people and injuring at least 58 others in a movie theater in aurora, colorado, last july. in arizona, the jodi arias trial is keeping millions of people riveted. and the jury in the case just might be revealing how it thinks -- what it thinks of arias and her testimony. the jurors have submitted at least 220 questions to the judge that they want asked to arias. and they haven't been pulling any punches. >> after all the lies you have told, why should we believe you now? >> lying isn't typically something i just do. i'm not going to say that i've never told a lie in my life

before this incident, but the lies that i've told in this case are -- can be tied directly back to either protecting travis's reputation or my involvement in his death. >> i spoke to "hln's" jane velez-mitchell, and i asked her what she thought of arizona and the other states that allow jurors to ask questions. >> it's absolutely surreal. these jurors have asked well over 200 questions to jodi arias. and many of these questions are sarcastic and hostile, like why should we believe you now when you've lied so much before? or you remember so many details of your sexual encounters. how is it that you can't remember stabbing travis alexander 29 times? but here's the thing. they are still scribbling more questions. they still want to ask her more questions. if they're so convinced she's a

pathological liar, why do they want to continue interacting with her in this way? it raises the possibility that they may have developed either consciously or unconsciously some kind of relationship with her, perhaps a love/hate relationship which ironically is a very kind of relationship travis alexander seemed to have with her. >> and it would seem a relationship is what the defense wants. but then when you evaluate these kinds of questions, it does perhaps reveal a direction. you mentioned they're very skeptical. so that would have to bode well for the prosecution. is it worth reading into it like that? >> on paper, this bodes very well for the prosecution. they don't buy her story. it's clear. to me that they don't buy that she went into a fog and doesn't remember most of the killing itself. it's clear to me that they have a lot of doubts about her claims that she was a battered woman. and that's the heart of her defense, that she was sexually degraded and a battered woman, and she had to kill him in self-defense.

but those are the conscious thoughts. i wonder if unconsciously, because they've come to know her because she's been on the stand 17 days, going into her 18th day next week, that they've developed some kind of unconscious bond with her that they might not even know about it. >> i don't understand how it would go into an 18th day. this seems very unusual that a defendant would be on the stand for so long. >> well, a lot of people feel this trial is officially out of control. i've used that phrase myself. but it is a death penalty case. so the judge wants to make absolutely sure that this woman, whose life is on the line, has every opportunity to explain herself. and boy, has she explained herself over and over again. i mean, we have questions that are, i would say, bizarre. what's the definition of skank, they're asking her? that's because there's a lot of retired people. they probably don't know what skank is. a lot of retired people on the jury. >> you spelled it out. she's claiming self-defense.

prosecutors say it was jealousy. are you hearing either motive convincingly established here? >> well, i think the prosecutor has done a brilliant job of showing that in his opinion, we'll see if the jury buys it, this was a premeditated crime where she plotted to go to arizona, bought gas in gas cans so she wouldn't be caught, leave no trail of buying gas in arizona itself and tried to get in there, do the job and then leave and canoodle another guy up in utah the next day. now, it's such a complex plot. perhaps the defense has poked enough holes in it to create reasonable doubt. we shall see. >> and what's next in this case? >> well, believe it or not, there are the possible more questions from the jurors. they are scribbling away. every time she answers, they have another question. and the prosecutor, juan martinez, will continue his cross-examination. after that you have the expert witnesses for the defense.

and it seems like the whole case could hinge on this battered woman expert, this woman who has dealt with battered women and will try to connect the dots for arias and say this is what battered women do. they lie about the abuse. they don't right it down. they don't take pictures of their injuries. they don't tell anyone because the prosecutors say there's no corroboration for your claims. so this life may hinge on this one expert. >> wow! fascinating stuff. jane, thanks so much. >> thank you so much. all right. the government is warning you of a new deadly superbug. the growing threat of a nightmare bacteria and who's most at risk to infection. and the ultimate cliff-hanger. really. a woman too terrified to jump gets a shove, that one, from her boyfriend. did their relationship take the plunge, too? jeanne moos has that story. he's laughing. ♪

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former south african president nelson mandela is in the hospital again, but officials say there's no serious problem. the nobel peace prize winner is in for a routine checkup and getting some tests done. mandela is 94 years old. in december he got a lung infection and also underwent gallstone surgery. soon it may be too late to stop so-called superbugs. this new breed of bacteria known as cre is resistant to nearly all types of antibiotics and can be deadly. i asked dr. anthony fouchy at the national institutes of health why these superbugs are such a big threat. >> well, the threat of the superbugs that we're talking about is that they are resistant to virtually all antibiotics. they are , under normal conditions, would be normal

inhabitants of the gut, but when they develop resistance, they are really untreatable by virtually any antibiotic we have. that's the first thing. the second thing is that what it does is that it invades the blood and tissue. and the mortality of people who do get infected is very high, approximately 50%. and the other real problem that you face is that it has the capability of transferring that resistance that's part of its own genetic structure to other microbes to make them resistant. so although this is something that, you know, historically had not been a big threat, it's becoming a growing threat particularly in hospitals and especially in hospitals that are long-term care facilities. so it's something that we have the opportunity to do something about because it hasn't yet exploded as much as, for example, mrsa has.

but it's still right now growing in a problem. and if you look at it over the last ten years, the problem has amplified considerably. >> well, why is it that nursing homes and hospitals are the places in which there are the greatest vulnerabilities? it seems those are controlled environments, and this kind of infection or bacteria would be contained. >> well, that's true, but that really doesn't turn out to be the case because in long-term care facilities and even in acute hospitals, when you have people that are very sick, they generally are put on antibiotics for one reason or another. sometimes appropriately. sometimes not. but they have invasive procedures. for example, in-dwelling catheters in the bladder to let urine out or ventilators where you have a tube going down into the trachea. and it's that kind of debilitation, long-term care, suppression of the body's defense mechanisms that allows the people in the long-term care

facilities and even in acute hospitals to be vulnerable to a microbe that would not bother you or i or someone who was otherwise healthy. but when put in the environment where there's a lot of invasive procedure and a lot of long-term care and maybe long-term antibiotics, that's a perfect setup for the invasion of this type of an organism to make someone very sick. and then that's compounded by the problem that if it's resistant to most antibiotics, in fact, all antibiotics, then you have a real problem. and that's the concern that we have. >> so the widespread use of antibiotics actually might help a person play host to this kind of infection? >> absolutely. whenever you give antibiotics, you get rid of what's called the sensitive microbes. and what happens is that particularly in the inappropriate use of antibiotics, the microbes that are resistant to that flourish more than the sensitive ones. so you have a predominance of

resistant microbes until it's resistant to virtually all antibiotics. so inappropriate use of antibiotics is a very important inducer of this problem. >> dr. fauci says health facilities have to be very strict about infection control. that requires employees wash their hands before and after every patient interaction. it also maintains isolation and having a dedicated staff deal with just these high-risk patients so the bacteria doesn't spread to the rest of the hospital population. in this week's "human factor," dr. sanjay gupta introduces us to bruce feiler, a devoted husband, father and writer who overcame a rare form of bone cancer. >> reporter: i first met bruce three years ago when he was trying to rebound from a cancer diagnosis, grappling with the possibility of dying before his twin daughters, eden and tybee,

grew up. facing his own mortality. >> i could just feel my body sort of slipping away. >> reporter: he makes an extraordinary request. >> will you help be their dad? >> reporter: thankfully, bruce and his family got through that. and today bruce has no evidence of cancer in his body. with all that behind him, he has resumed doing what he does best, writing. his new book is called "the secrets of happy families." what inspired you to write this book? >> we were always on the defense. and that's what it's like to be a parent these days. we made a list of all of the things that the kids have to do in the mornings. and then here's the key. they have to check off their own lists. a lot of what we are doing here is trying to kind of bring them into the process, be less top down, be less kind of parental controlling them all the time,

kind of enlist them wherever possible in their own upbringing. >> reporter: are there ground rules? are there things that cannot be said, for example? >> no, you are allowed to criticize the parents. >> just the other week, they were saying, you know, dad, you were yelling too much. in fact, we have this ipad, and we recorded you yelling. she loved this. she was giving us a high five. they said yeah, mom, but we got you cursing, too. it turns out there's only ten minutes of productive time in any meal. ten minutes. the rest is taken up with, take your elbows off the table and pass the ketchup. research shows you can take that ten minutes and put it at any time of the day and still have the benefits. so can't have family dinner, have family breakfast. meet for a bedtime snack. should we play the game? suddenly i'm a ballerina! here's my favorite thing from

"the secrets to happy families." researchers at emory university gave people a do you know test? do you know where your grandparents were born? do you know where your parents went to high school? if children understand they're part of a larger narrative, then they're more capable of coping. so you should spend time telling and retelling the story of your family's positive moments and the negative moments and how you overcame them. >> reporter: dr. sanjay gupta, cnn, reporting. it's a sure sign that a new pope will soon be elected. i'm talking about that chimney that they're installing on the roof of the sistine chapel. we'll look at what will happen behind the chapel's closed doors. and the stunning before-and-after photo of a man who was arrested and forgotten behind bars for nearly two years. the case he won against a county in new mexico. yo, give it up, dude!

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pedestrian bridge over i-90, then flipped over. police say the truck was riding with its trailer up and couldn't clear the bridge. amazingly, no one was seriously injured. and sky watchers can enjoy a rare treat today. a comet of stars is now visible on the western horizon in the northern hemisphere. folks in the u.s. may even be able to see it with the naked eye, which is rare. naked-eye comets happen only once every five to ten years. and here is a look at what's trending online. he's one of the best relievers in the game, but mariano rivera says he is retiring after the 2013 season. he has been with the yankees 19 seasons. the 43-year-old suffered a knee injury last may. lots of folks very disappointed to hear that news. and justin bieber's meltdown in london is getting worldwide attention. the singing sensation just turned 19. then you see him here leaving the stadium and then shoving a

photographer and attempted to provoke an altercation with the cameraman before his bodyguards forced him back into the vehicle. he's had some other troubles as well. he was late to his own show in london on monday. and then on thursday, he had to make a trip to the hospital after having shortness of breath. and a man known as the forgotten inmate is now $15 million richer. and he's free. steven slevin was locked up in august 2005 for drinking and driving but never prosecuted. the new mexico county that jailed him and isolated him from other inmates was accused of essentially forgetting about him for nearly two years. the county agreed this week to settle the lawsuit. preparations now are under way for the selection of a new pope in vatican city. just a short time ago, the papal ring and seal belonging to benedict xvi right there, they were destroyed. the next pope will get his own fisherman's ring and seal. a chimney that will signify when

the pope has been selected was actually installed today as well. white smoke will come out of that chimney when the big moment arrives, meaning when they have the name selected for a pope. but already there's been some tension between the cardinals who will begin voting on tuesday. ben wedeman has more on that. >> reporter: when the cardinals gather inside the sistine chapel next week to select the pope, they'll be sworn to secrecy. the chapel swept for listening devices, electronic countermeasures deployed to prevent the use of any electronic communication. but as the cardinals gathered in rome this week before being cut off from the outside world, word is already leaking about a possible rift between the cardinals from north and south america and cardinals from other countries over timing of the conclave. those from the americas wanted to air some issues before the conclave. the others wanted to just get on with it. >> there's this kind of guerrilla insurrection going on among cardinals from other parts

of the world including some americans who are very theologically conservative but very progressive in terms of business management that really want to shake things up around this place. and i think part of the drama of this conclave is going to be which one of those currents prevails. >> reporter: all that according to the future officials who are talking but asking not to be named. come tuesday, the conclave will begin with a special mass in the morning and a first vote in the afternoon inside the sistine chapel where work crews have been busy preparing the building for its historic role. the cardinals' movement will be closely restricted between the chapel and their nearby living quarters inside this vatican residence. the rooms, all without televisions, radios, phones or internet, assigned by lottery. once voting gets under way, the cardinals will cast ballots in order of seniority, and they're not allowed to vote for themselves. they'll keep voting up to four ballots a day until the two-thirds majority needed to

declare a winner is reached. each ballot is threaded on a length of string to prevent fraud. after each vote, the ballots are burned, sending up the now famous smoke signals, black for no winner, white for a new pope. the big question now, how long before the white smoke? >> they know that if this conclave goes more than three or four days, the drumbeat in the media will be paralysis and crisis in the vatican. so they want to get this wrapped up. on the other hand, right now they don't have a clear front-runner, so they've got about four days to get their act together so this does not become a gridlocked conclave. >> reporter: whenever it comes, a crowd will be eagerly awaiting just like they did eight years ago to celebrate a new pontiff to sit on the throne of st. peter. >> and ben wedeman joining me now from rome. ben, do we know any more about a possible front-runner? >> reporter: no, we don't. i mean, really, fredericka,

there are a lot of names being bandied about. in fact, on the wall in one of our offices, we have all the pictures of the so-called potential candidates. and the pictures are getting quite a few. we've got about 15 at this point. i mean, if you talk to veteran vatican watchers, they'll mention two names as possible front-runners. one is angela scola, the archbishop of milan, a man who really represents sort of the italian establishment within the vatican. another name you often hear mentioned is mark ouillet of canada, part of those who would like to see a non-european face in the vatican. >> all right. names we'll be watching and listening out for. thanks so much. ben wedeman in rome. back here in the u.s., austin, texas, is the place to be this weekend. the latest music, film and

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south by southwest officially kicks off is this weekend in austin, texas. it's the conference that showcases what's hot in music, film and the digital world. cnn money's lori siegle is right in the thick of it. ♪ >> reporter: welcome to south by southwest where the hot new technology isn't just an app on your smartphone, it's moving beyond the smartphone to something physical, something real, something you can put your hands on. it's all part of something they're calling the maker's movement. ♪ so tell me what we're doing over here. >> so what we're doing is we're looking at our one, two, three-d

creature ipad app. this lets you texture him, sculpt him, anything you want. we're providing the tools to create that 3-d model that you fabricate and make real. >> these are all things you've created on that app and you are able to print out here. >> that's right. >> this all came from an app. >> yeah. and it's very easy. you saw how easy it is to do it. >> so this is a 3-d printed record. basically what i've done here, i wrote a program that lets you take any piece of digital music. you can just convert it straight into a 3-d model of a record and print it right out and play it "turntable. >> reporter: this plays actual music. >> yeah. do you want to hear it? >> reporter: i definitely want to hear it. it's good. i like this. >> the turntable making a comeback? very impressive, lori. joining us now with the martha stewart of technology, what do you have for us? >> reporter: yeah, i'm with brit, and yes, they call her the martha stewart of technology.

brooke, how did you get that nickname? >> i don't know. what we do is we actually teach people how to make and do today in the digital age. that could be anything from analog as using your instagram photos to create home depore to printing out a 3-d spatula for your kitchen. it's about doing things in a short amount of time because we're all multitaskers and connected all the time. >> reporter: you essentially show people how to do different crafts with different technology, and you're very much a proponent of this make it do-it-yourself stuff. you have something called the brit kit. tell us about that. >> the brit kit, we package up all these different ideas into one kit that we send you every month. so that you don't have to go shopping. you don't even have to go searching for the inspiration of what you want to make and do. we send it to you on your do doorstep. it costs you 20 bucks and teaches you how to make and do in simple ways. >> reporter: how do you get the idea to start this? >> i came out of places like apple and google and my background is largely in tech. i saw a huge movement in the

analog world as well. the two really do play together as one. i became fascinated with things like digital sewing machines, cooking apps, laser cutters and every one of them was being controlled by technology in some way. >> reporter: very cool. fredericka, go to her site, brit.co. check it out. there are all sorts of cool crafts. i looked on there today and i thought, i've got to start using some of this stuff. >> there is the website right there. very neato stuff. i like it. bringing two worlds together, brit says. thanks so much, lori, appreciate that. >> reporter: thank you. >> check back with you later in the afternoon at the south by southwest conference in texas. aust austin, texas. coming up, a review of the multibillion-dollar story about life before the tornado hit kansas. disney's "oz the great and powerful" is in theaters right now. does it live up to the old classic? that's next.

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perhaps you want to go to the movies this weekend. you're trying to decide what to see. one option is a modern-day twist on the 1939 classic "the wizard of oz." "oz the great and powerful"

stars james franco, mila kunis and rachel weisz. joining us today, oh, oz, great oz, or oz gray, right? >> my friends. >> you are all into it. before we talk about it, let's get a quick clip of it. >> have you finally joined our side, sister? >> i am on no one's side. you know that. i simply want peace. that's all i ever wanted, and the wizard can do that. he's a good man. >> what do you know about goodness? deep down you are wicked. >> i'm not wicked! >> oh, boy. okay. so this is the good witch and the not-so-good witch. these characters are very different from what we remember from "the wizard of oz." so where are the real parallels here? >> well, the parallels, i think,

are very obvious. there is a yellow brick road, and there is oz. so ultimately, let's put the wizard of oz aside as much as possible because it's too tall an order to compare the two. it's almost, you know, obviously you want to think back to what you know and love and ruby slippers and who isn't a huge fan of that, but you're going to end up setting yourself up for disappointment because they're not the same movie. this is a prequel. the movie ultimately is just like the character of oz himself. it's very charming, but it's flawed. and so in the end, you're still rooting for it to be really good. and critics are not loving it across the board. but i think they're being too hard on it because this is a cynical world. where not everyone is wandering around wearing top hats like yours truly, and this movie is magic. >> wow! you had a chance to talk to some of the cast members. who do they think this movie is for? what is the audience? this does not look like a kid's movie.

>> well, it's rated pg. and aside from some really, really scary flying monkeys which terrified me as an adult, and i use that term loosely, adult. >> you are a big kid. >> i think the -- the movie's for everybody. it's great on a date. it's great with your friends. and it is good for your kids, like i said, as long as they can handle a couple really intense scenes with those monkeys. >> oh, forget it. >> director sam raimi is known for horror movies, and that really comes out with those flying baboons. other than that, everyone could love this movie, and it's going to be gangbusters at the box office. >> you spoke with sam raimi. let's take a quick peek of your conversation. ♪ >> god, you guys, this is pretty oz-some. is that a thing? can i say that? no?

>> i loved working with sam raimi. he's one of the greatest directors. >> he sets the tone for everything. his spirit is generous. it's transcendent. it's transformativtransformativ. he is the movie. he's the heart of the movie. >> he's equally interested in the characters as he is in all the spectacle. so as an actor, that's the kind of person you want to work with. >> okay. so correction, you spoke with everybody who has great things to say about raimi. >> they love him. and i spoke with him, too, and i yelled at him for scaring me with those baboons, no joke. he was so -- he's a wonderful director. i've been a fan of his ever since "the evil dead." i'm so happy to see that he's making big-studio pictures, and he's making films that everybody can love. take your whole family. see it twice. because like i said, this one's totally magical. >> yeah, it's colorful and enchanting. gray drake, thanks so much. and you're colorful and enchanting for us today, too. we appreciate that. >> why, thank you, my lady.

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and now a video millions of people have watched online. a woman afraid to go through with an extreme cliff jump gets shoved off the edge by her boyfriend. so did their relationship survive the plunge? here's jeanne moos with the cliff-hanger ending. >> reporter: when push came to shove, was it just a love nudge? >> you know i love you, right? >> please don't push me off. please don't. >> i am not. >> reporter: or did her then-boyfriend not take no for an answer? >> i'm not going to push you. i'm not going to push you. >> honey, honey, ah! >> it felt like all of my

insides moved up to my chest. >> reporter: by now millions have seen the infamous push, but this is the first time you'll hear her side of it. jessica powell and creighton baird were part of an extreme rope swing video being put together by devin graham. but when it was jessica's turn to jump -- >> two, one, zero! >> i can't do it. >> reporter: even a countdown couldn't jump start her. >> two, one, zero! >> i don't want to do it. >> reporter: for 45 minutes, she tried and then kiss turned to shove. >> i'm breaking up with you! >> i just got dumped. >> reporter: but before you say "you jerk," consider what jessica told creighton 45 minutes earlier. >> you know i'm really nervous about this. i don't know if i'll be able to jump. if i can't jump, you need to push me. >> reporter: when he did, his reputation took a dive as he told "inside edition" --

>> i feel i've taken chris brown's spot as the worst boyfriend in america. >> reporter: make that worst ex-boyfriend. her at the end of her rope line -- >> i'm breaking up with you! >> reporter: -- had them in stitches on "kimmel." but it turns out -- >> we've since broken up. not anything to do with the video. i have zero hard feelings toward creighton. >> reporter: the break-up happened about a month after the shove for reasons jessica prefers to keep private! but when she climbed a rope back up the cliff to creighton right after he pushed her -- >> i think he punched him first, but then i gave him a big hug and told him thanks for making it easy for me. >> reporter: he says the reason she gave this interview, her first, was to clear his name. and though her one-liner is already being parodied by boy scouts -- >> i'm breaking up with you! >> reporter: -- creighton is no cre creteen.

>> he's not a monster. he's nothing like chris brown. no offense, chris brown. >> reporter: at least it was the relationship that ended up on the rocks and not jessica. >> honey, honey! >> reporter: jeanne moos, cnn, new york. >> i'm breaking up with you! >> i don't know, that love is on the rocks, that's for sure. i don't know about that. all right. well, it is out of this world, but it's headed our way. another huge asteroid -- speaking of rocks -- coming up, an expert tells us if we should run for cover or take out our telescopes. transit fares! as in the 37 billion transit fares we help collect each year. no? oh, right. you're thinking of the 1.6 million daily customer care interactions xerox handles. or the 900 million health insurance claims we process. so, it's no surprise to you that companies depend on today's xerox for services that simplify how work gets done. which is...pretty much what we've always stood for. with xerox, you're ready for real business.

it's the top of the hour. welcome back to "the newsroom." i'm fredericka whitfielwhitfiel. part of the massachusetts coast starting to clean up after a major snowstorm or winter storm slammed the northeast. this one house, take a look, looks as if it will tip right into the atlantic ocean at any moment. another home has already fallen in. and authorities are beginning to demolish the house to limit the impact of nearby homes. john atwater of affiliate wcvb toured the damage. >> reporter: you can look down at what used to be the first floor. the waves are going in. they're carrying out chairs, tables, wood. there's metal coming out of that house. obviously, a lot of personal belongings here, a very sad

story. but the problem, all this debris that's coming out and then hitting other houses down the coastline. just behind the house, you can see a backhoe there. what they're going to do is start trying to dismantle these houses to try to limit the impact on others. >> my goodness. temperatures in that part of new england are expected to warm up today, getting up into the 40s. it's out of this world, and it's huge! and it's headed our way. we're talking about another asteroid. this one is the size of a city block. and it's passing by earth right now. coming up, we'll talk with a nasa expert to find out why we're having so many of these close encounters lately. that's about 15 minutes from now. on to afghanistan now. there's been a deadly explosion in the capital city of kabul. police say at least nine people were killed and 14 others injured when a suicide bomber on a bicycle detonated explosives. it happened near the afghan defense ministry. defense secretary chuck hagel was being briefed in a building nearby, but he wasn't hurt. the taliban is claiming responsibility.

meanwhile, secretary hagel met with rank-and-file troops. it's his visit to afghanistan, first one, since assuming his post. he also pinned two purple heart medals on soldiers from california and washington state. as for the bombing today, he says it doesn't change the mission. >> war didn't stop. and we have a war here. and that's just the reality. we're going to continue to work with the afghans and our coalition partners to fight that war and to assure that the afghan people have every ability and right to develop their own country their own way in a democracy. >> hagel last visited afghanistan in 2008 when he was a senator. overseas in vatican city, we're seeing signs that the roman catholic cardinals are preparing to select a new pope. the papal ring and seal

belonging to benedict xvi were destroyed a short time ago. the next pope will get a new fisherman's ring and seal with his own name on it after he is elected. a chimney was also installed today on the roof of the sistine chapel. that's where the 115 cardinals will gather tuesday for the start of the conclave. people from all over the world will be waiting for white smoke to appear from that chimney. and that will signify that a new pope has been chosen. former south african-american nelson mandela is in the hospital again, but officials say there's no serious problem the nobel peace prize winner is in for a routine checkup and getting some tests done. mandela is 94 years old. in december, he got a lung infection and also had gallstone surgery. there was a surprise jump in this week's jobs numbers in this country. alison kosik explains from the new york exchange that one of the biggest increases came from an unexpected sector. >> reporter: hi, fredericka.

the labor market moved forward in february. employers added 236,000 jobs. that means the economy has been adding jobs for three straight years now. the unemployment rate fell to 7.7%. the lowest since 2008. and one notable standout, the construction sector. it's making a comeback, adding 48,000 jobs in february and over 100,000 jobs since november. that's a nice turnaround considering that the industry lost millions of jobs during the financial crisis. construction is typically one of the last parts of the economy to recover after a recession. but now with the housing market coming back, construction jobs finally are as well, although there's still a lot of ground to make up. but diane swann, chief economist at mezero financial, said while the overall trend in hiring is good, there's still plenty to be concerned about. >> the trend has been in the right direction. we've seen that in jobless claims. and we've seen a lot of reports that suggest consumers are feeling a little better about the situation today in the jobs

market as well. that's the good news. that perception is yet to show up in the reality of the data. and until we really see people putting their hat in the ring and looking for jobs because they know they're going to get them, we won't feel a lot better about this economy. >> reporter: and that's the problem. thousands of people are still dropping out of the work force. they've given up hope, stopped looking. that helps lower the unemployment rate, too, but for the wrong reasons. so for now, a good jobs report but still room for improvement. fred? >> thanks so much, alison. all right. the political powder keg is building on the border between north and south korea. north korea today formally rejected sanctions that the united nations imposed against the communist country for its recent nuclear tests. plus north korea is vowing to end pacts from the korean war and threatening a preemptive nuclear attack. and that's prompting south korea to promise a strong retaliation. it's gotten so intense now china is calling for all sides to calm down. but north korea is not backing down from its nuclear program,

and the u.s. has just learned of a new weapon the north koreans are testing. here's pentagon correspondent barbara starr. >> reporter: almost hysterical north korean troops greeted their leader, kim jong-un, during his made-for-tv inspection tour of military border facilities. kim wants the world to see this as he has dramatically stepped up his dangerous rhetoric. he's even threatening a nuclear attack on the u.s. as he faces tough u.n. sanctions for his recent nuclear test. the obama administration isn't backing down. >> we're also going to continue to increase the pressure if they don't make the right choice. >> reporter: on his way to afghanistan, defense secretary chuck hagel made clear how closely the u.s. is watching. >> the united states of america and our allies are prepared to deal with any threat. >> reporter: cnn has learned the u.s. has recently stepped up

surveillance using aircraft, radars and satellites already nearby. military officials say so far there are no signs of unusual military moves by the north. but there is a disturbing new weapons program, the kn-08. u.s. officials say this missile shown in a north korean military parade last year, is now undergoing engine testing. it's a three-stage ballistic missile with a potential 3,000-mile range. that's not as far as the rocket north korea launched which could hit alaska or hawaii. so why does the u.s. think it's so dangerous? the north koreans can drive the kn-08 around on a truck launcher. >> they would have a bunch of these in an underground bunker, in a garage and possibly under cover of darkness, they would all leave the garage and start driving around at random. and within a few hours, you could have a really hard time

figuring out where they had all gotten off to. >> reporter: the u.s. believes a recent satellite launch in north korea actually included some testing of kn-08 components. and at that test site now, classified u.s. imagery is showing more activity, vehicles, personnel and electronic equipment signs the north koreans may be getting ready for yet another missile test. barbara starr, cnn, the pentagon. and she's faced questions from attorneys, but this week accused murderer jodi arias took questions from the jury. they could give her the death penalty, if convicted. we'll show you what hammed and what's ahead for the next week. and we saw what happened when a meteor came crashing down on russia last month. well, today a big asteroid is having a closer encounter with earth. we'll talk with a nasa astronomer about it. and jon bon jovi opens up with cnn about the nra, putting him on an enemies list. of course, we'll talk to him

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jurors. cnn's randi kaye has the latest from phoenix. >> reporter: for jodi arias, this week was all about proving she never planned to kill travis alexander. >> did you go to mr. alexander's home on june 4th with the intent on killing him? >> no, i didn't. >> reporter: the jury is well aware arias has changed her story three times. two years after the killing, she finally said she did kill travis alexander but in self-defense. she claimed his anger and the physical abuse worsened after she had caught alexander masturbating to a photo of a young boy. but if it was so startling, why hadn't she written about it in her journal? >> it's a highly negative event, and it was a negative experience for me. and it's not something that i wished to remember. >> reporter: another week, another sex tape. this time the defense played mainly alexander's voice, an effort to paint him as the more experienced sexually. >> you cannot say i don't work

that booty. we've had two and three-hour sessions many times. >> reporter: the defense did all it could to clean up arias's image, even trying to explain away the text message arias sent alexander, suggesting she dress up like a dirty little schoolgirl. >> the idea of the schoolgirl in the outfit, was that something that you were interested in, or was it something you were doing to please him? >> it would be more for his pleasure because just being with him was enough for me. but he enjoyed that kind of stuff. >> reporter: by midweek, it was the jury asking the questions. more than 200 in all delivered by the judge. they started with this zinger. >> why did you put the camera in the washer? >> i don't have memory of that. i don't know why i would do that. >> reporter: the camera contained pictures of alexander in the shower.

this one taken just two minutes before his death. photo time stamps put arias at alexander's house at the time of the killing. and what about arias's failing memory the day alexander died? she has testified that she shot alexander first and doesn't remember anything after that. here in court, her defense lawyer tried to raise even the slightest doubt that it was arias who stabbed alexander nearly 30 times and sliced his throat so deep, his head was nearly cut off. >> do you have any memories of slashing mr. alexander's throat? >> no. >> when you were asked on cross-examination if you did that, do you recall telling us that you did? >> yes. >> was that a recollection or a logical assumption on your part? >> it was definitely not a

recollection. >> reporter: the jury also wanted to know this. >> why did you place travis's body back in the shower? >> i could only speculate because i don't remember. >> reporter: and this. >> why is it that you have no memory of stabbing travis? >> i can't really explain why my mind did what it did. maybe because it's too horrible. >> reporter: when the jury's questions were done, arias's defense lawyer stepped in, yet again to try to repair the damage. >> so jodi, that is the ultimate question. why should anybody believe you now? >> i lied a lot in the beginning. i understand that there will always be questions. but all i can do at this point is say what happened to the best of my recollection. and if i'm convicted, then that's because of my own bad

choices in the beginning. >> reporter: bad choices that could cost her her life. >> randy kaye, cnn, phoenix. now to a new law that gives teachers the option of carrying a gun on the job. the governor signed a bill into law yesterday. it gives school staff the authority to carry a firearm in a k-12 school in that state. it's up to school districts. it's the first state to enact such a law. and a school south of albany, new york, just suspended its armed guard in-school program afteren officer accidentally discharged his gun in a hallway. the officer is now suspended while the incident is investigated. no students for staff were injured. a month after a destructive meteorite hit russia, an

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sky watchers can enjoy a rare treat today. comet is now visible on the western horizon in the northern hemisphere. folks in the u.s. may even be able to see it with the naked eye, which is pretty rare. a naked-eye comet happens only

once every five to ten years. now to our other out-of-this-world story. an asteroid the size of a city block is hurling towards the earth now. that has many people wondering what kind of experience will we have? will it be like this? that was the scene when a meteor slammed into southern russia last month. it exploded and shattered windows for miles. about 1500 people were hurt. as for today's asteroid, though, we're told not to worry. though it is 262 feet wide, it will only get within about 605,000 miles to earth. that's less than half the distance from the moon. joining us right now from los angeles is nasa astronomer amy mizer. good to see you, amy. >> good to see you, too. >> will anyone be able to actually see this asteroid as it passes by? 600,000 miles away? >> yeah.

you've got to have some fairly serious amateur telescopes to be able to see this particular object. it has already glided harmlessly by us. it has made a fairly close approach. about 2 1/2 times the distance from the earth to the moon. but this one, there is no chance of it impacting the earth. and it's on its way out back into the outer solar system. >> okay. you said it glided by. does that mean it really is among, you know, lots of other asteroids or, you know, similar kinds of debris just floating around the atmosphere, and that just happens to be one of the bigger ones that kind of skirted past earth so many thousand miles away? >> yeah. this particular object is actually on the smaller side for an asteroid. as you mentioned, it's about 260 or so feet across. and that makes it actually fairly small for such an object. it was discovered on sunday. and the reason that it was discovered so soon relative to its close pass is because for an asteroid that small, we are able to detect it when it makes this close approach. now, the good news is,

astronomers all around the world have piled on to observing this particular object. it was discovered by the catalinas sky survey. there have been 500 recorded observations of it so far. >> wow! say it was on a different course and was coming straight for earth, what, if anything, could be done to intersect it? >> right. the main thing we obviously want to do with asteroids is detect them as far away from any potential impact as possible. so the good news is that nasa has really been stepping up their efforts in the last ten years or so to find and track these objects and keep an eye on them. so for this particular object, we know very well that it is not going to impact the earth. obviously, we want to keep our eyes peeled, though. >> yeah. and when that meteor slammed into russia, it was the biggest blast since -- you know, there was one back in 1908 hitting a siberian forest. how similar or how different, you know, were these potential threats? an asteroid versus a pemeteor tt

could potentially make contact with earth? >> right. so the only real difference between an asteroid and a meteor is whether or not it actually comes into the earth's atmosphere, whether it actually gets to us. but basically, this particular object, the one that just passed by us, is about four times larger, we think, than the one that hit on february 15th. so not that long ago. now, close approaches do happen fairly often. they are out there. and part of the reason we're hearing more about them nowadays is because we're actually doing more surveys. as astronomers are searching the skies, naturally, they are finding these objects and seeing them, which is what we want. >> and what can we learn from these? >> well, basically, this is teaching us about the frequency with which asteroids make close approaches to the earth, what their orbits are like, how big they are, what they're made out of because obviously we want to do our very best to track and find these objects long before there's any potential for an impact. >> amy mainzer joining us from

los angeles, thanks so much. it is fascinating. >> thank you. nasa is proving the mohawk guy isn't the hippest thing they've got going these days. remember him from the mars rover landing? well, now astronauts are getting in on the -- you guessed it it -- ♪ what is that? ♪ ♪ do the harlem shake >> there is no stopping this tune and the dancing. my goodness. it's out of this world. thankfully, they're doing it from the safety, i guess, of earth. they're doing this at the flight facility in virginia, the walloped flight facility in virginia. so exactly what happens when

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hello again, i'm fredericka whitfield. you're in the "cnn newsroom." a look at our top stories. parts of massachusetts, the coast there starting to clean up after a winter storm slammed the northeast. this house looks as if it will tip right into the atlantic ocean at any moment. another home has already fallen in. and authorities are beginning to demolish the house to limit the impact on nearby homes. in afghanistan, there's been a deadly explosion in the capital city of kabul. police say at least nine people were killed and 14 others injured when a suicide bomber on a bicycle detonated explosives. it happened near the afghan defense ministry. defense secretary chuck hagel was being briefed in a building nearby, but he wasn't hurt. the taliban is claiming

responsibility. and don't forget to set your clocks an hour forward tonight. daylight saving time starts at 2:00 in the morning. you'll lose that extra hour of sleep, but it also means that you'll have an extra hour of sunlight every evening. and here's what's trending. danica patrick is having a rather rough week. she was hit in the head by a rock at a dirt racetrack in las vegas. and she wasn't even racing. patrick was a spectator at the track. she was checked out by medical staff, but they said she's doing just fine. just last weekend, she crashed into a wall at a race in phoenix. and then there's new york yankees' legend mariano rivera who says he is retiring. for 19 seasons, he has been one of the most dominant relief pitchers in all of baseball. but rivera missed most of last season with a knee joinjury. rivera has more saves than any pitcher in baseball history.

his film "oz the great and powerful" opens, james franco gets his own star on the hollywood walk of fame. he was joined by several friends including actor seth rogen. franco starred in such hits as "spider-man" and "127 hours." now to vatican city where the scene is being set for a new pope. the papal ring and seal belonging to benedict xvi gone, making way for a new ring to be created for the next pope. a chimney that will signify when the pope has been selected was actually installed as well, and you'll have to wait until tuesday when that conclave begins. 115 cardinals meeting. and the process -- the voting process is both sacred and secretive. jonathan mann takes us inside for a preview. >> reporter: it's the oldest enduring electoral system in the world, and many of its traditions have been unchanged for centuries. the conclave which literally

means locked with a key dates back to a time when cardinals were locked in until they chose a new pope. now it's the world that's locked out, figuratively speaking, as much of the conclave will take place behind closed doors. the gathering begins with a morning mass in st. peter's basilica. in the afternoon, the 115 voting cardinals, those under 80 years old, enter the sistine chapel where each will take an oath of secrecy. the penalty, automatic ex-communication. after the oath, preparations are made for the election taken by secret ballot. lots are drawn to select three cardinals who will help collect ballots. three more cardinals to count the votes and three others to review the results. printed on the ballots, the words meaning i elect as supreme pontiff. each elector writes the name of one candidate on the lower half of the ballot and folds it in half. cardinals are not allowed to vote for themselves. then in order of seniority, the cardinals take their ballots to

the altar. each places a folded ballot onto a small desk, and then the ballot is dropped into a chalice. once all the votes are cast, the ballots are tallied, and the results are read aloud. more than two-thirds majority is need to do declare a winner, in this case 77 votes. if there is no winner, there's another vote. if there is still no winner, two more votes are scheduled for the afternoon. voting continues up to four ballots each day until there is a winner. the ballots are burned after each session in an incinerator inside the chapel, sending off the most famous smoke signal in the world. if there's no winner, they're burned with a chemical that gives off black smoke, telling the crowd waiting in st. peter's square that a new pope has not yet been selected. when there is a winner, the ballots are burned alone, giving off white smoke, a sign from the cardinals that they have chosen a new pope to lead the church. jonathan mann, cnn, atlanta. >> and coming up, rocker jon bon

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pop star justin bieber just may be having the worst week ever. and it all stems from his trip to london. his fans booed him at a show on monday for being two hours late. he had a meltdown on twitter wednesday, tweeting about people judging him. he collapsed on stage thursday during his concert. and then tweeted a shirtless instagram picture of himself resting in a hospital. but yesterday, well, he had had enough. check out this confrontation with a photographer who cursed at him.

>> [ bleep ] [ bleep ]. >> moron. >> what the [ bleep ] did you say? what did you say? [ bleep ] [ bleep ] [ bleep ] [ bleep ] [ bleep ] >> come back [ bleep ] all right? >> so bieber eventually tweeted an apology saying this. quote, sometimes when people are shoving cameras in your face all day and yelling the worst thing possible at you, well, i'm human. not gonna let them get the best of me again. all right. speaking of music sensations, it's hard to believe that it's been nearly 30 years since bon jovi released their breakout album "slippery when wet," but jon bon jovi has moved past the leopard pants and the hair spray. cnn's victor blackwell talked with bon jovi now working with his community, not because he has to, but because he can. ♪ oh raise your hands

>> jon, 30 years of bon jovi. 125 million albums. and you've got the 12th studio album coming out now in a few days. as you move on from the "slippery when wet" days and you go into decade two and three and now starting the fourth, do you feel a responsibility to write music that is more socially conscious? >> no. but i said when i was 25, i was never going to be 50 painting my fingernails black and writing "bitch" on my belly. but i said that, you know. i said it as a kid, and then i grew into that, which was good. and the truth was is, when you are 25, you should write "you give love a bad name." who wouldn't want to write that when you're 25? that was what life was about. if i was 50 trying to write that now, i'd be deemed a 30-year-old man. it would be a little sick and twisted, you know? >> reporter: but there are some still doing it. >> not me. not me. we've grown up in public. and that's sort of the, you

know, the cuteness is you can go okay, go on. right here, insert the clip bad name with my hair down to here. ♪ you give love a bad name that's cool. that's fine. but that's not who i am now. you know? it's a progression and revolution. >> reporter: what about now? hence the name of the album? what's the message of that lead single off the top. ♪ i'm not a soldier but i'm here to take a stand because we can ♪ >> "because we can," is it a nod? a little bit but not direct ly. it's not that. it's why should we? because we can. you know? why should we get involved in making our neighborhood a better place? because we have to, you know? and because we can just sang a little better. >> reporter: so let's talk now about some of the things you do off stage. let's talk about home. you grew up in new jersey. we all know what happened there

with hurricane sandy. what did you feel when you went back and you saw what had happened to the shore and to the communities and the people there? >> i was devastated. you know, these were my people. this was, you know, where i grew up. these were my memories. these are my families and my personal property. these were my everything. you know, it makes you more aware next time you see tragedy on cnn that that is somebody's people. that is somebody's neighbors. and you can't think of it just in the context of television where you feel empathy. you have to, you know, take it to that next level and say, we can help that. >> reporter: i want to get to the gun issue. the nra put you on a list of enemies. >> oh, well. >> reporter: why would they do that? what are your thoughts on this proposed ban on some semiautomatic guns? >> i'm all for it. i'm all for it. i think background checks should be mandatory. i don't believe that you need

assault weapons in the woods to hunt. i believe that 50-round clips doesn't really make it fair game, does it? i think it just -- it's a little extreme. ♪ it's my life ♪ and it's now or never ♪ i ain't gonna live forever >> reporter: what do you want to do that you haven't done? i mean, you've done so much. what do you want to do? >> i have a bucket list. but, you know, i'll leave it at that. and people should always have a bucket list. they should always have a list of things that they haven't done that they want to do. i think when you stop dreaming, stop reaching, then you start slowing down, and then you get bored. i'm not bored. ♪ it's my life >> and we can tell he's not bored, thank goodness. you can see more of victor's interview with bon jovi online at cnn.com. identity thieves are finding

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stolen i.d. to write hundreds of dollars in bad checks. and then earlier this week, she was checking a customer's i.d. she's a waitress and bartender and realized that she had been handed her own stolen driver's license. >> my i.d. you gave me my i.d.? i didn't say anything. i handed it back to her. i said sure, i'll be right back with your margarita. went straight to the phone and called the cops. i put on my server's smile, but i was shaking like crazy. >> police showed up within minutes and arrested the suspect. she is facing identity theft and drug charges. so it's bad enough someone steals your identity and uses it for fraud. but what if they steal the i.d. of your kids? believe it or not, it is one of the fastest growing kinds of identity theft. people stealing the personal information of small kids, even babies. i want to bring in joe mason, co-author of "bankrupt at birth." joe, since the 1980s, the irs

has required kids to have social security numbers. how exactly are identity thieves getting those numbers? >> well, you're exactly right, fredericka. in '87, the irs thought that every taxpayer should show proof of their dependent. so they started ensuring that all juveniles had social security numbers in order to file them on their tax return. and what's happened naturally is that's created unintended consequences. and thieves are getting hold of child's social security number. >> how are they getting that? >> they're getting it from a variety of sources. as parents, we all know how often we're asked for information about our child. and this could be from the school. it could be from a sports team. it could be from any sort of a pharmacy, doctor's office, day care and typically we get a c p clipboard, pen and we're asked to fill it out and most parents hand it back completed. >> wow.

are you now encouraging us as parents to perhaps not write down the social security numbers whenever it is requested in any of these forms for your kids? >> yeah, there are some legitimate reasons for it. but what i want to do is encourage parents to always challenge whenever they're asked for it. ask why the information is needed. ask how the information's going to be protected. ask how you will be notified in the event of a breach. and parents need to be very, very selfish and very protective of the information of their children because they can go for years having someone else use their identity only to find out, come 16, 17, 18 years old, that they're in for a rude awakening at a very critical stage of their lives. >> so you're also suggesting that parents need to do a credit check of their kids using that social security number just to make sure that no one has stolen their identity. >> it's a good idea. a credit check on your child can be done. and also there are monitoring systems, identity guard's got a

very good one to monitor the identities of children. and you as a parent can be notified in the parent can be notified in the event anything suspicious is occurring with that information. >> all right. so what do you do if it turns out that someone, maybe you did that credit check or you find out that someone has taken the social security or identity of your kid. >> well, what you do is the first thing you do, you need to notify the credit reporting agencies, and they need to put a freeze on that social security number, notify the local police department. after all, this is a crime. notify your financial institutions, because you too may be vulnerable as a result of your child's identity being stolen. and it's something that parents have enough to worry about and adding this to the list is something no one wants. >> what a nightmare. if your identity is stolen, everyone knows how long it takes before you can finally get it resolved. so as best you can, it's good to try to revent it. joe mason, thank you so much. >> thank you, bred fredricka. >> a spring break without kids

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if your vision of a perfect spring break does not include the kids or college crowd, we have some tips on how to make your dreams come true. there's still a little time to book a spring trip, just for grown-ups. jetsetter.com's editor, kate maxwell shares the off the beaten path, mexico's pacific coast. >> just south on the pacific coast of mexico. the caribbean coast which has cancun, those places can get crowded at this time of year. but the pacific coast is not as crowded. it's also a fantastic surf spot. and we really like playa viva,

$137 a night when you book three or more. it's eco chic, quite res rustic. don't expect air conditioning, your cell phone might not work. i think that's a great thing, personally, if you want to escape. >> that's right. that's getting away. >> exactly. even a turtle sanctuary so you can help out with turtles. so a really beautiful part of the world. >> and then you can check out the aztec ruins, as well? >> exactly, so you've got some culture as well as your beach and sun. >> perfect relaxation. now let's head to oh the caribbean, st. john's. you say there is a perfect getaway there. >> so galley bay in antigua, one of our favorite caribbean resorts. all-inclusive, but not like you heard about in the past, $430 a night includes al your meals and alcohol and kind of like staying at a friend's estate if you have those kinds of friends. super romantic and a beautiful, beautiful beach escape. lots of caribbean properties have that kind of pastel color

scheme. this doesn't. it's really kind of very elegant and simple in design. really, really hike like it. >> inlt mat. and then you say there is a resort you love in st. mar teen. >> exactly. really good value for the caribbean. also a leeward island saint martin. it costs from $90 a night. that's, again, if you book three or more nights. and it's a really barefoot chic kind of place. on 140 acres of lush rain forest. obviously you can just sit on the beach and do absolutely nothing. or you can even go zip lining. so there's two extremes. and, again, the caribbean, wonderful, water sports, as well. all right. romance and adventure in st. martin. >> right. >> kate maxwell, jetsetter.com. >> thanks, fredricka. >> you can find out more about these get-aways by go to jetsetter.com. she was paid to have a child for another family. but then after an ultrasound

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our top stories right now, parts of the massachusetts coast cleaning up today after a destructive winter storm. this one house you're about to see there looks as if it will tip into the atlantic ocean at any moment. another home already did. and authorities are now demolishing the house near it to limit the impact on nearby homes. in afghanistan, there's been a deadly explosion in the capital city of kabul. police say at least nine people were killed and 14 others injured when a suicide bomber on a bicycle detonated explosives. it happened near the afghan defense ministry. defense secretary chuck hagel was being briefed in a nearby building, but he wasn't hurt. the taliban is claiming responsibility. and former south african president nelson mandela is in the hospital again. but officials say there's no serious problem. the nobel peace prize winner is in for a routine checkup, and getting some tests done. mandela is 94 years old. in december, he got a lung infection and also had gallstone

surgery. and now to the u.s. economy, and new signs the recovery may be gaining momentum. hiring picked up substantially in february, bringing unemployment down to 7.7%. that's the lowest it's been since december of 2008. the economy added 236,000 jobs last month. almost double the amount it gained in january. and much more than experts had predicted. and stocks are on a roll. the dow closed at record highs for four consecutive days, ending the week up more than 2%. meanwhile, folks are starting to really feel the impact of those forced spending cuts. and especially hard hit are nearly 2 million families depending on unemployment insurance. as emily schmidt tells us, they are about to really feel the pain. >> next stop, somerset. >> reporter: tracy muscle va hill's commute is a smooth part of navigating what's become a bumpy road. >> yes, very interesting

journey. >> reporter: she's on her way to volunteer with the philadelphia unemployment project, helping people without jobs look for the opportunity. she knows it can be hard to find. >> doors are closing. >> this is the first time i am on unemployment. it's scary, confusing. yeah. hold on one moment. you know, i never thought i would be in this position. >> reporter: she says she worked for nearly three decades before a slowing economy cost her on office manager job and part time cleaning job. she has loorkd for work since last march with only $730 of federal unemployment insurance every two weeks to barely cover a box full of bills. >> my mortgage is $700. my car note is $372. >> reporter: washington's forced spending cuts that went into effect last week means tracy's checks will shrink too. it could cost 3.8 million jobless americans around 10% of their benefits. >> that's now $200 less income

in this house, which i don't know how i'm really going to do it. >> reporter: economists disagree on how much the cuts will hurt. >> anything that slows down the economic recovery, that slows down the rate of overall employment growth, is going to hurt the chances that the long-term unemployed are going to find work. >> these extended unemployment benefits are a subsidy. we need to cut all subsidies in the federal government, frankly, if we're going to get this deficit down. >> reporter: for now, muffle hill splits her time between volunteering and keeping things running at home, hoping that next job isn't far away. >> you know, this was the american dream, i thought. and i mean -- and right now i'll do anything i can to keep all that. >> tracy, i spoke with her this afternoon, she says she does have a new job lead. a church told her about an opening to work on its newsletter. it would mean a career change, but she is getting her resume

ready, hoping maybe this is the one that would allow her to get back to work. >> all the best to tracy. so mean time, it's been a week now, eight days. the forced spending cuts going into effect. any hope that the president and congress will see eye-to-eye? >> there's always hope. and opt mists are pointing to the fact that president obama has been talking more with republicans, he had lunch with them, dinner with them. he is scheduled to meet with them, as well as democrats, on capitol hill later next week. but the question is, there might be bigger issues to have to deal with here. how to deal with entitlement reform, what to do about whether you raise taxes or not. and it's very likely these cuts we are seeing, including unemployment checks, are likely to hit before there's any grand compromise to be reached. fred. >> emily schmidt, thanks so much in washington. here's another way those spending cuts are really hurting people. no more white house tours, at least for now. it's official as of today, in fact. one mom says her son's birthday wish was to tour the white house. and they're pretty disappointmented.

>> i was pretty upset about it. just because of the fact that i know how difficult sometimes it is to get a tour of the white house and to have it lined up and just to kind of coincide with his birthday. and for him to just turn 8 and he had his own bucket list and on that bucket list was d.c., and, you know, the white house. and so it was a little bit, you know, upsetting. >> after the white house announced the suspension of tours, republicans came up with their own idea about saving money. have the president cancel all of his golf trips. all right. it is a classic washington filibuster and rand paul's stand on the floor of the senate has caused quite a stir. dana bash explains. >> i will speak until i can no longer speak. >> reporter: rand paul's nearly 13-hour talk fest ignited a war of words with one of his most prominent gop colleagues. >> if mr. paul wants to be taken seriously, he needs to do more than pull political stunts that

fire up impressionable libertarian kids in their college dorms. >> reporter: there mccain was quoting from the "wall street journal." what he told the huffingtop post was all mccain. it's always the wacko birds on the right and left that get the media mega phone. paul responded by taking the high road, calling mccain a war hero. >> you know, i treat senator mccain with respect. i don't think i always get the same in return. >> reporter: the back and forth illustrates several growing schisms inside the gop. but it was paul's push for answers on drones that took off on twitter. more than 580,000 tweets with the #standwithrand. >> i feel quite confident that the senator from kentucky is not aware of the twitterverse that has been exploding. >> reporter: and anyone watching c-span late into the night saw republicans with ambitions for hiring office race to help paul's filibuster. >> the senator from kentucky deserves an answer. >> i'm happy that we're here still working hard on this issue.

>> reporter: as for paul, he has never tried to hide his ambition for the white house, even saying this to hillary clinton earlier this year. >> had i been president at the time and i found that you did not read the cables from benghazi, you did not read the cables from ambassador stevens, i would have relieved you of your post. >> cnn was given details about a possible 2016 run. a source familiar tells cnn he is building an informal finance committee, amassing an e-mail list of 2 million and counting and keeping in touch with grass roots activists that propelled his father, ron paul's presidential campaign. conservative activists call him a formidable force for the 2016 presidential race. >> he's establishing a persona that we haven't seen very much in the republican parties. part of this new generation of leaders who is willing to take a principled stand, stand up to the obama administration, and actually prevail. and not take any flack for it. >> a gop source familiar with senator paul's political

movements tells me he has plans in the not-so-distant future to visit the critical presidential primary state of south carolina and perhaps new hampshire and iowa. there are signs he is already heavily engaged in laying the ground work for a white house run, an aspiration those close to him say got him a lot of help with this week's surprisingly successful high-profile filibuster. dana bash, cnn, washington. and perhaps things could be thawing between democrats and republicans in washington. why it took time away from the hill to melt some of that ice. and facebook is about to make some of the biggest changes ever. we'll show you how it will affect its 1 billion users. plus, she's a successful mixed martial arts fighter, revealing a very personal secret. her story is the first known in the history of the sport. michael, tell us why you used to book this fabulous hotel? well you can see if the hotel is pet friendly before you book it, and i got a great deal without bidding.

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there is still gridlock in washington over the forced spending cuts, but a night out away from capitol hill could be the beginning of a thaw between democrats and republicans. cnn political editor paul

steinhauser explains why that anybody popular with the rest of the country. >> hey, fred. is the cold war over here in washington? this week, president barack obama took a bunch of republican senators out to dinner at a trendy restaurant. the next day, he had a top house republican over for lunch at the white house. regardless of the motives this will probably well with you at home. check this out. more than three quarters of people questioned in a cbs news poll out this past week said the president and democrats in congress should compromise rather than stick with their positions when it comes to fixing the country's fiscal mess. 73% said the same thing about congressional republicans. as for the blame game over the forced spending cuts, americans are pointing fingers at both parties. 38% in that same poll say they blame republicans for failing to avert the cuts. 33% say they point more fingers at the president and congressional democrats. and guess what. one in five said both sides are equally guilty. it seems the president's approval rating has taken a

little bit of a hit because of the cuts. but his numbers still tower over those of congress. fred. >> thanks so much, paul. in vatican city, seeing signs that the cardinals are preparing to select a new pope. the papal ring and seal were destroyed a short time ago. the next pope will get a new fisherman's ring with a seal, and his name on it after he is elected. a chimney was also installed today on the roof of the sistine chapel where the 115 cardinals will gather tuesday. people from all over the world will be waiting for white smoke to emerge from that chimney. that will signify a new pope has been chosen. a woman paid to have a baby for a couple is asked to have an abortion after an ultrasound finds abnormalities. well, the surrogate refuses and she flees. coming up next, a look at the dark side of surrogacy. good afternoon. chase sapphire. (push button tone)

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a woman hired to give birth for another couple receives an unbelievable offer. have an abortion because the baby, as it turns out, had serious medical problems. senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen spoke with the surrogate mother about her decision to have the baby anyway. >> crystal kelly was thrilled when a couple hired her to be their surrogate and carry their baby. the husband and wife were ecstatic too. finally, they would have the child they had been longing for. >> she said pray for a little girl. i want a little girl. >> and she got a little girl. >> she got a little girl. >> was it the little girl she wanted? >> no, it wasn't. >> ultrasounds halfway through kelly's pregnancy showed the baby girl growing inside her had severe heart defects. a brain abnormality and other medical problems.

>> they said she had a less than 25% chance of being able to have a normal life. >> inside hartford hospital in connecticut, the parents, heartbroken, asked kelly to have an abortion. >> i refused. i couldn't do it. i could feel her kick and squirm. i knew she had a fighting spirit. >> but the parents pleaded with kelly. genetical genetically, this was their baby. she was just carrying her. >> they said she didn't want to bring a baby into the world only for that child to suffer. they said that i should try to be god-like and have mercy on the child and let her go. >> and what did you say? >> i told them that it wasn't their decision to play god. >> strong convictions, but would she betray them for the right price? kelly was a single mom. money was tight. through the surrogacy agency,

the parents said they would pay her $10,000 to have an abortion. >> and when you saw that $10,000 figure, did you think, maybe i'll do it. >> in a weak moment, i asked her to tell them that for $15,000 i would consider going forward with the termination. >> the parents refused her request. and kelly says she quickly regretted asking for the extra money anyway. deep down, she knew she could never abort under any circumstance. once again, they were at a standoff. cnn reached out to the parents. they didn't respond to repeated calls or e-mails and we're not naming them. legally, they couldn't force kelly do have an abortion. so they proposed, if you have this baby, we'll give her up, and she'll become a ward of the state. >> i'm not going to let her become one of those forgotten, disabled kids that gets lost in the system.

>> kelly made a bold decision, informing the parents at the last second she left the state. pregnant with their baby. >> packed up my van with everything that i could carry, threw my kids in the car. and we drove. for two days. to michigan. >> under michigan law, kelly would be the baby's mother. >> you were making a decision for a baby that was not genetically yours. >> i can't tell you how many people told me that i was bad -- that i was wrong. that i should go have an abortion. that i would be damned to hell. >> she spent the final months of her pregnant naecy in michigan gave birth last june. and she's the baby today. she's 8 months old. to protect her privacy, we're not naming her or oh the family kelly found to adopt her. along with her cleft lip and palate and misshapen ear, she has severe brain and heart

problems. she'll need several risky surgeries to survive. but in many other ways, she has developed like other babies. she smiles, babbles and grabs for toys. some people would say why bring a child in this world who you know is going to have such huge medical problems? >> and i say that it's not fair to not give them a chance to overcome them. >> what if she doesn't walk, though, what if she doesn't talk? >> she is still a happy little girl who is going to bring joy into the lives of everyone who knows her. >> when you see her now, how does that feel? >> it gives me a lot of joy. and i know that every single thing that i did was worth it. >> elizabeth cohen, cnn, atlanta. and she is a successful mixed martial arts fighter, revealing a very personal secret. her story is the first known in the history of the sport. why she is talking now. but first, here's sanjay gupta with a look at what he's

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all right. take a look at this. a major interstate will be shut down in cleveland all weekend long after this pretty frightening accident. a dump truck smashed into a pedestrian bridge over i-90, and then it flipped over. police say the truck was riding with its trailer up and couldn't clear the bridge. amazingly, no one was seriously injured. and here's a look at what's trending online. the first known transgender athlete in mixed martial arts is making headlines. fallen fox kept her medical history private. she was born a man. earlier today, fox told our brianna keilar why she chose to

share her secret. >> i didn't plan on coming out. there was a reporter that contacted me and was digging. apparently he was told rumors that i was transgender. a transsexual is the terminology that i like to use. so i pretty much had no choice, because he was digging around, asking people about me. so if it wasn't for that, i would have preferred to keep my personal medical history to myself. because that's what -- it's a matter of -- it's about my personal medical history. and i don't think that anybody should have to reveal their personal medical history if they don't feel they want to. >>. and a boat carrying $1 million worth of marijuana was found near a beach by vanderburg air force base. large balls of pot found buried in the sand according to keyt. police are now looking for a number of suspects. an asteroid the size of a city block is zipping past earth today. but there is no danger of it actually hitting our planet. the asteroid is already

observable in the night sky, even with amateur telescopes. all right. now let's talk about social media. if you added everyone on facebook as a friend, you would have about 11 billion friends, right? and now all facebook users are about to see some pretty big changes. the company is going to revamp its news feed, the main page people look at. alison kosik looks at why the company decided it was time for a change. >> bigger photos, your choice of feeds and more consistent look across desk ttop and mobile. facebook is getting a makeover. the social network unveiled the announcement wednesday afternoon. >> we believe the best personalized newspaper should have a broad diversity of content. it should have high-quality public content from world-renounld sources and socially and locally relevant updates from family, friends and people armed you. >> reporter: the updates are meant to give users more control over their feeds and